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A swimming pool, recreation center, dog park and amphitheater are among the proposals for an
acre of the Grandview Yard development that is being donated to Grandview Heights.

Also suggested by residents: a garden maze, mechanical flower or velodrome.

Nationwide Realty Investors has promised the city 1 acre of the approximately 100-acre site and
is offering an option for a second acre for public use.

The city collected ideas from students and residents during an August meeting, said Patrik
Bowman, director of administration and economic development for Grandview Heights.

Planners have not identified the location of the proposed civic land nor set a deadline for when
it will be developed, said Brian Ellis, the president of Nationwide Realty Investors. “It depends
on the market, the economy and a whole bunch of other factors. Depending on what the idea is, that
would dictate where it is in Grandview Yard.”

Some residents have lobbied for community meeting space and indoor competitive-swimming pools,
but Bowman said they would be costly.

“I would like to have a little ‘wow’ factor down there,” he said. “The Arena District has the
arena. Easton hit the retail environment just right. We’re kind of in between markets.”

A velodrome, for racing bicycles, “would attract good races and quite a crowd to Grandview and
foster its name as a biking hot spot,” said Oliver Decker.

Tracy Garrett offered a “beautiful idea .. a mechanical flower in a city park.” The idea came
from a flower sculpture in a Buenos Aires park.

Nothing has been removed from consideration, Bowman said.The city would have to purchase the
second acre if it decides it’s needed. Land in Grandview Yard is valued at about $450,000 an acre,
Bowman said. Ellis said whatever is chosen should be compatible with the overall project, which
might take 10 or more years to be fully developed and is to include a fitness club, supermarket,
hotel, restaurants and apartments.

A two-story, 50-bed rehabilitation hospital run by HealthSouth Corp. is to be built in the
southwest corner of the development and employ about 120 people. A Giant Eagle supermarket is to
open late next year on the northern edge of the property, Ellis said. And the first residents of a
154-unit apartment complex will begin to move in Friday.